05/09/2024
When I first started filming weddings I was under the impression that my work needed to be a very specific way: it needed to be dramatic, super emotional, and romantic, and by being those things it could be nothing else. At the time it felt super black and white, all of the wedding videographers I had seen seemingly fit into two boxes: super dramatic and moving, or fun and upbeat but also like a music video??? (If I hear any “swagger” songs I get ptsd I promise they usually begin with “let’s do this” “let’s go” etc. ) The thought I vividly remember was “I will never make funny wedding films” because ultimately I wanted to make people cry and I thought people wouldn’t cry if I made videos that were funny. Eventually after a few years of slo motioning every single couple portrait I shot and taking my voice out of all clips because hating our own voices is scientific right?? I was pushing myself and my approach into a box of what other people were doing, and in turn wasn’t trusting myself. My ethos is my constant, I want to understand and romanticize the s**t out of my clients. That doesn’t mean I need a 20 second clip of their dress hanging, nor does it mean I need to use dramatic instrumental music. It means I see their day as it was, which usually is a mix of a million different emotions, that all deserve space and time. There are no rules. There isn’t a formula or archetype you have to fit into to make wedding films, just play Goddamit!
Xoxo em